Just 22 percent of techies in UK aged 50 or older, says Chartered Institute for IT
A little more than one in five techies in Britain is aged 50 or older, and enticing more of that demographic to enter the world of information technology could help alleviate a perennial skills gap., which reckons just 22 percent of the 1.9 million IT specialists in the local industry are at or past the half century mark.
'We can only achieve the government's ambition for the UK to be the 'next Silicon Valley' by closing the digital skills gap and making this vital profession attractive to a far broader range of people," said Rashik Parmar MBE, CEO of the BCS.
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